is last Words--His
Death--Despair of his Children--M. Thomas kindly
takes charge of Picard's Family--The eldest of the
Ladies goes and mourns over the Grave of her
Father--Her Resignation--M. Dard disembarks, and
adopts the Wrecks of the Picard Family--M. Dard
marries Miss Picard, and at last returns to France 159

APPENDIX.

Substance abridged from MM. Correard and Savigny,
of what took place on the Raft during thirteen
days before the Sufferers were taken up by the
Argus Brig 169

Notes 193

II. NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY OF M. DE BRISSON IN
THE DESERTS OF AFRICA 199

III. VOYAGE OF MAD. GODIN ALONG THE RIVER OF THE
AMAZONS 307

I.

HISTORY OF THE SUFFERINGS AND MISFORTUNES
OF THE PICARD FAMILY,
AFTER THE SHIPWRECK OF THE MEDUSA,
ON THE WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA,
IN THE YEAR 1816.

FROM THE FRENCH OF MADAME DARD,
ONE OF THE SUFFERERS.

BY P. MAXWELL, ESQ.

THIS TRANSLATION
OF MADAME DARD'S NARRATIVE
OF HER SHIPWRECK AND MISFORTUNES,
IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED
TO MISS AGNES MALCOLM,
BY HER AFFECTIONATE AND GRATEFUL COUSIN,
THE TRANSLATOR.

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

The following pages are translated from the "African Cottage," of Mad.
Dard.[1] They contain no romance, but a well authenticated story,
corroborated by the previous Narrative of MM. Correard and Savigny.
Those gentlemen have detailed their sufferings on the fatal raft, after
the disastrous shipwreck of the Medusa frigate; but the account
concerning those who escaped, by aid of their boats, to the shores of
Sahara, deficient in their recital, is supplied by Madame Dard, who was
present at all the scenes she relates. Interwoven with the Narrative, is
an interesting account of the Picard Family, whose wrongs cannot fail to
excite pity, and to engage those feeling hearts in her favour, to whom
the fair authoress has addressed the story of her misfortunes.

[Footnote 1: "La Chaumiere Africaine; ou, Histoire d'une Famille
Francaise jetee sur la cote occidentale de l'Afrique, a la suite
du naufrage de la Fregate la Meduse. Par Mme. Dard, nee Charlotte
Adelaide Picard, ainee de cette famille, et l'une des naufrages de
la Meduse." Dijon. 1824, 12mo.]

There is not, on the records of misery, an instance of more severe and
protract